Las Vegas News

Washington, DC - The Internal Revenue Service today encouraged eligible small businesses that did not file certain retirement plan returns to take advantage of a low-cost penalty relief program enabling them to quickly come back into compliance.

Springdale, Utah - Brian Artmann, age 24 and a resident of Henderson, NV, died over the weekend after taking a fall in Zion National Park. Artmann and three fellow canyoneers were attempting to complete Heaps Canyon at the time of the accident. Artmann fell nearly 100 feet at approximately 7:00 p.m., Saturday, July 11. Due to the remoteness of the area, his companions were unable to get fully out of the canyon and notify the park until almost 11:30 p.m.

Boulder City, Nevada - Park Rangers from Lake Mead National Recreation Area and partners from the Lower Colorado River Water Trail Alliance hosted 200 YMCA of Southern Nevada summer campers at Willow Beach June 29 to July 2 to introduce them to the Black Canyon Water Trail.

Las Vegas, Nevada - Dipak Desai, the former physician owner of a defunct Nevada endoscopy center, was sentenced today to 71 months in federal prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay over $2.2 million in restitution for defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and other private health insurance companies by inflating and overcharging for anesthesia services, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.

Washington, DC - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced the expansion of the “If You See Something, Say Something™” public awareness campaign to the city of Chicago and Cook County, Illinois.

New York - Federal agents arrested three Executives of a Panamanian corporation and aviation company Wednesday on charges they conspired to launder more than two million dollars of proceeds from what they thought to be a penny stock fraud scheme. In fact, the money was provided to the defendants by an undercover law enforcement agent who posed as a criminal stock promoter as part of a sting operation.